Rapid Response: Questions that are debatable

Question: OK, you get to ask one question in an upcoming presidential debate. What's the topic and how do you frame the question?

? The real $222 trillion federal government debt due to unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This continues to grow and obviously can never be paid off. What is your plan for an orderly federal government default?

Kurt Fiech

Lafayette

? Topic: Debt. Will you promise to veto any budget that is not balanced no matter how much special interests on both side whine?

Mark Rumps

Lafayette

? Employment is the No. 1 thing affecting our economy right now. Please name three actions you would take, specifically to improve employment in the U.S. In follow up to President Obama, if you have taken those actions, why haven't they worked? If you have not already taken those actions, why not?

Dan Sommers

West Lafayette

? Given that fossil fuels are polluting, finite and non-renewable sources of energy and that worldwide demand for them is growing, what plans do you have that will help us make the transition to renewable energy sources?

Frank Arnold

Lafayette

? I'm really concerned about education. What will you do to make sure that everyone who wants to go to college has the opportunity to do so without running up mountains of debt?

Jo Ann Mullen

Lafayette

? Health reform. In 1974 Richard Nixon proposed universal health care. Why does the Republican Party oppose it now? With the states running in the red how do you think they are going to set up state-run health insurance under patient-centered health care?

Dennis Donoho

Sedalia

? Why don't we have a free trade agreement that states you can ship into the U.S. only as much as you import to your country from the U.S.?

Glen Jonas

Dayton

? The topic would be creating jobs for everyone. What would you do to get people to work, off welfare, food stamps, and unemployment? Be specific because we are creating another generation of people who are solely dependent on the government.

Terry Smith

Shadeland

? What one thing in your own life would you most like to erase?

Jim Hanks

West Lafayette

? A section of interstate near Vegas is disintegrating into a gravel road. Today's cost of repair: $7 million. Two years from now: $35 million. We need a new bridge on U.S. 52 over the Wabash River. It is rated structurally deficient, similar in design to the bridge that collapsed in Minnesota. When will you force Congress to pass a jobs bill before we become a Third World country?

Furman A. Powell

Lafayette

? The question I would like to hear asked would be: As President of the United States, is fundamental change or a full restoration of constitutional principles the most important thing for the future of the United States?

Danny L. McDaniel

Lafayette

? Special benefits for the president and Congress. What do you think about this and what will you do to change it? For instance, why should we allow lifetime benefits after they serve and make millions while they are serving?

Jack Lahrman

Sheffield Township

? The national debt just exceeded $16 trillion. At this rate, interest on the debt will consume most tax revenue when interest rates inevitably go back up (the Fed can't keep printing money forever to keep them low without sending the dollar into hyperinflation). In order to avoid this catastrophe we must stop adding to the debt. What is your plan to have the federal budget balanced before you leave office?

John Pickerill

Crawfordsville

? Do you believe the electoral process should be reserved for individual citizen voters? Could you support electoral reforms which would remove from campaign funding the participation of nonvoting entities such as corporations, PACs, political parties or nonprofits?

Jerry Hirschinger

West Lafayette

? Topic: Taxation. Question: If Congress passes the FairTax, will you sign it into law? Understand that I do not mean simply a "National Retail Sales Tax," but specifically the FairTax, the progressive national retail sales tax now proposed in both the House and Senate (HR25 and S13).

Kurt Burnett

Lafayette

? Mr. Romney: You are a long-standing, active member of a religious organization that, until June of 1978, did not allow black men to receive the priesthood or full membership benefits. Why should this not be troubling to every American?

Sarah Snoeberger

Lafayette

? How will the taking of $716 billion from Medicare and putting into Obamacare make us better off than we were four years ago?

Neal Hawkins

Rossville

? Taxation. While F.I.C.A. is levied on all citizens for a benefit in later life, would it not be important for every citizen to pay income tax, however small? It might encourage interest in and responsibility for federal spending. "Skin in the game?"

Claire Brigham

West Lafayette

? The topic: Why should we reward incompetence? The question to president Obama: If you added $6 trillion to debt, doubled gas prices, increased unemployment to 23 million Americans, sued many states for enforcing laws, insulted police officers doing their jobs, canceled NASA and much more, why should you get four more years?

Mike Webster

Linden

? Topic: Energy independence. Question: Do you believe that the United States would be in a better position to broker peace in the middle East and throughout the world if we were 100 percent energy independent/self-sustaining?

Edward Priest

Battle Ground

? Given the combined forces of technology and mass production reducing most of the need for human workers, with the resultant constant decrease of traditional jobs, how do propose to deal with this growing disconnect between consumers and producers?

Ed Posey

West Lafayette

? There isn't a single isn't a single thing Romney could say at this point that would convince me to vote for him. He's already had too many chances to be truthful and failed.

Mike Dudgeon

Lafayette

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Rapid Response: Questions that are debatable

Question: OK, you get to ask one question in an upcoming presidential debate. What's the topic and how do you frame the question? The real $222 trillion federal government debt due to unfunded